Makes a very stout cloth, rope, twine,--all that sort of thing.

Opens up a new and important industry, boys,--particularly obnoxious to married men.

We'll be having dress-making establishments in full blast before you know it, and model gowns till you can't rest.

I almost hate to spread the news among the women.

We won't have a cook, or a laundress, or a school-teacher on the Island if this dressmaking craze gets started.